Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Jim HarrisonWriter · American · b. 1937
More from Jim Harrison
Book Quotes
#Nation
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. — Jim Harrison
  • Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison
  • Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. — Jim Harrison
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026